By “Independence Day” and “The Day After Tomorrow” filmmaker Roland Emmerich is reportedly developing a remake of David Lean’s iconic cinema masterpiece “Lawrence of Arabia”.
Emmerich is currently shopping around the project titled “In Arabia” which is being done as a “three-season prestige TV series”. Emmerich says the title change and shift to TV allows them to have “a little bit more characters” than the film.
Dubbing it a long-gestating passion project of his, Emmerich is apparently seeking over $100 million in funds to make the project with “Bohemian Rhapsody” scribe Anthony McCarten, who is teaming with Emmericn on the project, is hoping to write the entire first season.
The nearly four-hour original film starred Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness and Omar Sharif and is considered one the great films ever made.
It follows British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) who is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. Lawrence defies orders and sets across the desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.
Emmerich is coming off the widely panned “Moonfall” and the not well-received Peacock series “Those About To Die”. He’s also pursuing a second season of the latter, with that one being a part prequel set a decade earlier.
Source: THR
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